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Islamic Shariah law stipulates that custody of children in divorce generally goes to the father, according to a Canadian immigration department report. That is creating headaches for Canadian customs officials in the Middle East and elsewhere. The internal report shows many are being put on the spot to decide edgy custody conundrums, such as whether […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and brand new B.C. Premier John Horgan bent over backwards to appear congenial after their first meeting Tuesday, avoiding any mention of their differing positions on expanding Kinder Morgan's TransMountain pipeline.

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and pop star Wanting Qu have ended their relationship, according to a report. The couple broke up two months ago. The mayor’s office told the South China Morning Post that Robertson and Qu “are no longer together. They ended their relationship in May.” Robertson and Qu first went public with their […]

B.C.’s New Democrats will return to power at the legislature for the first time in 16 years, after toppling Premier Christy Clark’s Liberals Thursday and being asked by the lieutenant governor to form the next government.

Only a few tent city residents packing up their belongings at 950 Main St. will be heading to shelters, which several campers described as having unsafe and undesirable conditions. Nobody was saying where they will go next with their air mattresses and sleeping bags stuffed into plastic bags, along with personal items that gave their […]

Following a showdown over a landmark street corner, one of Canada’s endangered historic neighbourhoods is at a crossroads. Vancouver councillors will introduce a pair of motions next week arising from the rejection, earlier this month, of a rezoning application by local developer Beedie seeking to build a 12-storey condo development on the edge of Chinatown. […]

As Morgane Oger sits on a sunny café patio, several passersby wave hello or offer condolences to the rookie NDP candidate, who narrowly lost the Vancouver-False Creek riding to a high-profile Liberal incumbent in the May 9 provincial election. This friendly banter on the patio would have been hard for Oger to imagine four years […]

With summertime nearly here, Canadian visits to the U.S. and other foreign destinations are on the way up. Want to bring booze or some other purchase back? The rules are straightforward — but there may still be the occasional surprise. The general rule: the longer you’re away from Canada, the more you can bring back. […]

Thousands of new child care spaces will be available in the next three years under an NDP government, leader John Horgan pledged Wednesday, as he reiterated his campaign promise of $10-a-day daycare. But the plan, which would cost the government $1.5 billion a year once fully implemented, will take 10 years to put in place, […]

VICTORIA — Aggressive deer are being blamed for two separate attacks on dogs and their owners in Saanich. Police in the suburban Victoria municipality say both incidents happened Sunday near wooded areas close to the University of Victoria. Romeo Strasbourg says he was walking his dog when a doe attacked and would not be deterred […]

Following reports of squalid, dangerous, “Third World” conditions at the Balmoral Hotel, a reporter visited the East Hastings landmark, asked to speak with the owners, and was rebuffed. “I am not surprised, given city hall efforts to force the establishment to clean up or shut down,” wrote Larry Pynn in The Vancouver Sun. That was […]

Sales of farmland in B.C. surged and prices jumped immediately after the provincial government announced a foreign buyer tax on residential land in July 2016, a Postmedia investigation shows. The surge in agricultural land sales and prices — on property that is not subject to the 15 per cent foreign buyer tax — was largely […]

A new plaque unveiled in Vancouver’s Chinatown Saturday commemorates the national historic significance of the Chinese neighbourhood and the role it played in welcoming immigrants who arrived in Canada. Nellie Yip Quong and Wong Foon Sien were also both recognized as key figures in Vancouver’s Chinese history. Saturday’s event featured a lion dance and other […]

Nearly 40 per cent of the MLAs elected Tuesday night are women, a record for B.C. and the highest number of any Canadian province. “Both the B.C. Liberals and the NDP have been raising their numbers of women candidates since 2009,” Carolyn Jack of Equal Voice B.C. said Thursday. “The parties have decided that they […]

With all eyes on the Green party as a potential power broker in a minority government, we look at where the Greens’ policies seem to align — or don’t — with those of the NDP and the Liberals in Postmedia’s 20 Hot Election Topics. Below are brief summaries of some of the promises in the […]

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